Fair tidings
I, King Geiseric, last of my name have been wondering of the use of chaff and whether to bring zombies or skeletons to my battles.
Some context first: in my neck of Sylvania I typically fight Warriors of Chaos and High Elves. My two opponents focus on infantry and cavalry with only small exceptions. These battles are usually 3 way fights and my attempts at going into a slugging match against High Elf Spearmen or Swordmasters and Chaos Warriors have ended badly, despite my best attempts and resurrecting them in droves to grind my enemy into the dust. My attempts have gone as follows:
60 strong blocks of skeletons with hand weapons and shields against 20 Swordmasters with 1 Necromancer.
60 strong block of zombies with two necromancers against a 20 man group of Warriors of Chaos.
While the zombies held out longer because of the Invocation of Nehek (total of 4d6+2 per magic phase usually).
Sadly they were ground into dust in about two rounds (regardless of my hard flanking and the dice gods looking unfavorably upon me).
Am I misunderstanding the use of my undead chaff? I have been quickly reevaluating their use as they don't fare well in combat against, well, anything. And the ever loathed rule of Unstable which in some cases has killed more models than the enemy has.
What is their proper or at the very least a more efficatious use of my zombies and skeletons.
I, King Geiseric, last of my name have been wondering of the use of chaff and whether to bring zombies or skeletons to my battles.
Some context first: in my neck of Sylvania I typically fight Warriors of Chaos and High Elves. My two opponents focus on infantry and cavalry with only small exceptions. These battles are usually 3 way fights and my attempts at going into a slugging match against High Elf Spearmen or Swordmasters and Chaos Warriors have ended badly, despite my best attempts and resurrecting them in droves to grind my enemy into the dust. My attempts have gone as follows:
60 strong blocks of skeletons with hand weapons and shields against 20 Swordmasters with 1 Necromancer.
60 strong block of zombies with two necromancers against a 20 man group of Warriors of Chaos.
While the zombies held out longer because of the Invocation of Nehek (total of 4d6+2 per magic phase usually).
Sadly they were ground into dust in about two rounds (regardless of my hard flanking and the dice gods looking unfavorably upon me).
Am I misunderstanding the use of my undead chaff? I have been quickly reevaluating their use as they don't fare well in combat against, well, anything. And the ever loathed rule of Unstable which in some cases has killed more models than the enemy has.
What is their proper or at the very least a more efficatious use of my zombies and skeletons.